Hi Bob, I manage a large schema that uses DocBook 5. The normative schema is RelaxNG. This schema is automatically translated to XSD using Trang, but the resulting XSD files have to be post-processed in order to fix them before they are useable by consumers.
DocBook 6 in pure RelaxNG+Schematron would be fine with me. Cheers, Steve Ball > On 19 Oct 2016, at 5:51 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: > > The DocBook Technical Committee is considering dropping the XML Schema > version of DocBook in a future version 6. We would like to hear from any > members of the DocBook community who would be affected by this change. > > Let me be clear that this change is not on the horizon, but part of our long > term planning. The DocBook TC takes great care in maintaining backwards > compatibility on point releases because we know how much the DocBook > community relies on stable sources. When DocBook rolls to a new major > version number, we treat that as an opportunity to introduce changes that are > not backwards compatible. The change from 4 to 5 was such. If we foresee > such changes coming, we give the DocBook community very advanced notice to > prepare for them. > > We will continue to maintain the DocBook standard in RelaxNG with Schematron > rules, and will continue to generate a compatible DTD. > > However, the process of maintaining the XSD version of DocBook is proving > burdensome because it cannot be completely generated by a conversion program, > and requires manual tweaking. Because we are not sure if anyone is actually > using the XSD version, we are wondering if this is worth the effort. If you > are using it, or have tools that depend on XSD, please let us know. > > You can reply directly to me if you don't want to discuss it on the mailing > list. > > -- > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
